Broom-holder.



PATBNTED SEPT. 6, 1904.

G. E. CRAFTS. BROOM HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 8. 1904.

NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 6, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. CRAFTS, OF BANGOR, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE B.FREELAND, OF BANGOR, MAINE.

BROOM-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,469, datedSeptember 6, 1904.

Application filed April 8, 1904. Serial No. 202,172. (No model.)

T 0 all 'LUh/OTJI/ it may concern.-

Be it known that LGEoRoE E.Cnarrs,a citizen of the United States ofAmerica,and a resident of Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and Stateof Maine, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements inBroom-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to broom-holding devices of the kind whichcomprises a swinging pawl arranged in relation to a rest for the side ofthe broom-handle and operative to permit the handle on an upwardmovement thereof to be entered between the broom-handle rest and thethen-upwardly-yielding pawl, the weight of the broom carrying thetherewithengaged pawl downwardly to bind the broomhandle between the endof the pawl and the adjacent broom-handle rest.

The object of the invention is to produce the components of the deviceof such novel construction that the parts having all the essential ordesirable features and capabilities are reduced to a minimum withcorresponding economy of manufacture and whereby there is an avoidanceof derangement after protracted use.

The invention consists of parts formed and combined to constitute thebroom-holder, substantially as hereinafter described in conjunction withthe accompanyingdrawings and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device holding abroom-handle. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device, and Fig. 3 is a planview of the same.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all ofthe views.

In the drawings, A represents the back plate and main support of thedevice having at one end portion the forwardly curved broom-handle resta and having its opposite end slitted for a short distancelongitudinally and the tongue or portion of the metal represented at 7)between the slits forwardly bent at right angles to the plate orsheet-metal back A to constitute an abutment or stop to limit theswinging movement both upwardly and downwardly of thebroom-handle-engaging pawl B. The back plate A is designed to befastened to the wall or against the vertical face of any appropriatesupport by the screws (1 (Z.

The pawl B is constructed with a plate-like end portion f, pivoted toand arranged to swing on the. front face of the back plate A adjacentthe aforementioned abutment b, 9 representing the pivot which ispreferably constituted by a headed and upset rivet, and the edge portionof the plate-like part f is formed with a recess of considerably-greaterextent than the width of the abutment b, so that a suitable degree ofswinging movement may be imparted to the pawl before either of theshoulders 71 or if will contact against the abutment, and the pawl has ahorizontallywidened web-like portion '1', which as to its width isarranged in a plane at right angles to the back plate and to the pivotedend portionf and which as to its length is extended to approach thebroom-handle rest a, and its end edge, which is beveled, is formed witha shallow curved recess j to conform more or less to the cylindricalcontour of the broom.

The back A, having integrally therewith the broom-handle rest (a and theabutmentlug b, may be advantageously made of sheet metal struck up, andthe pawl, which constitutes the only other component of the device, withthe exception of the uniting-rivet and the fastening-screws, maypractically be a casting.

Normally the parts will occupy the relative positions shown in Fig. 2,the pawl being in its lowered position and to the limit as permitted bythe shoulder if, engaging the lower edge of the abutment, and there canbe no accidental or undue upward swinging movement, owing to thelimitationby the shoulder h contacting against the upper edge of theabutment b, and the broom is engaged within the holder and supportedvertically thereby by first thrusting the broom-handle upwardly betweenthe rest a and the adjacent end of the upwardly-yielding pawl and thenpermitting the broom to gravitate, whereupon the downward swingingmovement of the pawl engages and acquires a crowding bind against thebroom-handle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A broom-holder, comprising in its construction a back plate having atone enda forwardly projecting portion, constituting a broom-handle restand at its other end an integral forwardly-extending tongue constitutingan abutment, and a pawl pivoted at one end to said back plate andprovided at its pivoted end with two separated shoulders which lie onopposite sides of the tongue for limiting swinging movement of the pawl,the free end of the pawl being located adjacent the forwardly-projectingportion of the back plate. 7

2. A broom-holder, comprising in its construction a back plate formed ofsheet metal having one end portion forwardly curved and constituting abroom-handle rest and its other end slitted on two lines, the metalbetween the said slits being bent outwardly to provide anabutment-tongue, and a pawl pivoted at one end to said back plate andprovided at its pivoted end with a recess, the opposite ends of whichconstitute shoulders that lie on opposite sides of the said tongue tolimit swinging movement of the pawl, the opposite end of the pawlterminating in a web-like portion having a shallow curved recess thatlies opposite the forwardly-curved end of the back plate. I

Signed by me at Springfield, Massachusetts, in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE E. CRAFTS.

WVitnesses:

A. V. LEAHY, WM. S. BELLOWS.

